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RNS Number : 2611C NatWest Group plc 28 April 2026
NatWest Group plc - Result of Annual General Meeting
28 April 2026
Following the Annual General Meeting held today at Gogarburn, Edinburgh EH12
1HQ, NatWest Group plc (the "Company") announces
the results of the poll vote for each resolution as follows. Resolutions 18,
19, 21-22 and 24-25 were passed as special resolutions.
VOTES % VOTES % % of ISC VOTED VOTES
FOR
AGAINST
WITHHELD
Resolution 1 23,324,710,676 99.99 1,594,760 0.01 73.10% 54,972,472
To receive the 2025 Report and Accounts
Resolution 2 22,931,537,780 98.11 441,594,512 1.89 73.25% 8,145,616
To approve the Annual remuneration report in the Directors' remuneration
report
Resolution 3 23,374,970,952 99.99 2,977,068 0.01 73.27% 3,282,880
To declare a final dividend of 23 pence per ordinary share
Resolution 4 21,526,249,876 92.09 1,849,269,268 7.91 73.26% 5,758,764
To re-elect Rick Haythornthwaite as a Director
Resolution 5 23,360,516,288 99.93 16,957,620 0.07 73.26% 3,804,000
To re-elect Paul Thwaite as a Director
Resolution 6 23,292,259,556 99.67 77,569,652 0.33 73.24% 11,448,700
To re-elect Katie Murray as a Director
Resolution 7 23,359,007,856 99.94 14,639,524 0.06 73.25% 7,630,528
To elect Josh Critchley as a Director
Resolution 8 23,354,883,180 99.92 18,970,208 0.08 73.25% 7,424,520
To re-elect Roisin Donnelly as a Director
Resolution 9 23,027,255,028 98.52 346,426,732 1.48 73.25% 7,596,148
To re-elect Patrick Flynn as a Director
Resolution 10 23,357,312,888 99.93 16,290,504 0.07 73.25% 7,674,516
To re-elect Geeta Gopalan as a Director
Resolution 11 23,357,451,136 99.93 15,875,304 0.07 73.25% 7,951,468
To elect Albert Hitchcock as a Director
Resolution 12 23,003,635,304 98.42 370,121,272 1.58 73.25% 7,521,224
To re-elect Stuart Lewis as a Director
Resolution 13 23,355,000,848 99.92 18,802,536 0.08 73.25% 7,474,524
To re-elect Gill Whitehead as a Director
Resolution 14 22,926,296,256 98.08 447,667,516 1.92 73.25% 7,314,136
To re-elect Lena Wilson as a Director
Resolution 15 23,356,110,068 99.95 12,026,628 0.05 73.24% 13,139,020
To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors of the Company
Resolution 16 23,365,904,792 99.95 11,146,264 0.05 73.26% 4,223,136
To authorise the Group Audit Committee to fix the remuneration of the auditors
Resolution 17 22,498,802,688 96.25 877,202,540 3.75 73.26% 5,268,968
To renew the directors' authority to allot shares in the Company
Resolution 18 23,047,936,536 98.60 328,014,992 1.40 73.26% 5,326,380
To renew the directors' authority to allot equity securities on a non
pre-emptive basis in connection with an offer or issue of equity securities
Resolution 19 23,045,694,176 98.59 330,428,552 1.41 73.26% 5,155,180
To renew the directors' authority to allot equity securities on a non
pre-emptive basis in connection with the financing of a transaction
Resolution 20 23,240,965,860 99.42 134,936,100 0.58 73.26% 5,375,948
To renew the directors' authority to allot ordinary shares or grant rights to
subscribe for or to convert any security into ordinary shares in relation to
Equity Convertible Notes
Resolution 21 23,125,677,648 98.93 250,210,776 1.07 73.26% 5,389,484
To renew the directors' authority to allot equity securities on a non
pre-emptive basis in connection with Equity Convertible Notes
Resolution 22 21,885,436,552 93.62 1,492,135,204 6.38 73.26% 3,698,572
To renew the authority to permit the holding of General Meetings on 14 clear
days' notice
Resolution 23 23,260,760,492 99.51 115,071,576 0.49 73.26% 5,433,460
To renew the authority in respect of political donations and expenditure by
the Company in terms of sections 366 and 367 of the Companies Act 2006
Resolution 24 23,341,428,892 99.93 15,535,508 0.07 73.20% 24,314,584
To renew the authority for the Company to purchase its own shares on a
recognised investment exchange
Resolution 25 23,224,293,792 99.34 153,334,480 0.66 73.27% 3,649,176
To authorise the Company to make off-market purchases of preference shares
* A vote Withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation
of the proportion of votes "For" and "Against" a resolution.
In accordance with the UK Listing Authority's listing rules, a copy of the
resolutions that do not constitute ordinary business at an annual general
meeting will shortly be available for inspection at the National Storage
Mechanism which is located at:
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism)
A full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Meeting which is
available on the Company's website at
www.natwestgroup.com (http://www.natwestgroup.com) .
As at 24 April 2026 (being the latest date by which shareholders who wanted to
vote at the Annual General Meeting must have been
entered on the company's Register of Members) the total number of voting
rights in the company was xx
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